Software Engineer II- Backend

Job Title: Software Engineer II- Backend

About SurveyMonkey:

SurveyMonkey is a global leader in online surveys and forms that empowers people with the insights they need to make decisions with speed and confidence. Our fast, intuitive feedback management platform connects millions of users worldwide with real-time AI-powered insights that drive meaningful decisions. With over 20 years of survey expertise, we help our customers uncover insights about their customers, employees, and prospects. We provide answers to more than 20 million questions every day so that people and organizations can attract new audiences, delight customers, create advocates, and extend their competitive advantage in the marketplace. Our vision is to raise the bar for human experiences by amplifying individual voices. Learn more at surveymonkey.com.

About Symphony Technology Group (STG)

STG is a Silicon Valley (California) based private equity firm with a long and successful track record of transforming high-potential software and software-enabled services companies and insights-oriented companies into definitive market leaders. The firm brings expertise, flexibility, and resources to build strategic value and unlock the potential of innovative companies. Partnering to build customer-centric, market-winning portfolio companies, STG creates sustainable foundations for growth that bring value to all existing and future stakeholders. The firm is dedicated to transforming and building outstanding technology companies in partnership with world-class management teams. With over $5.0 billion in assets under management, including a recently raised $4.2 billion fund. STG’s expansive portfolio has consisted of more than 40 global companies. SurveyMonkey is a recent addition to STG’s portfolio of companies.

STG Labs is the incubation center for many of STG’s portfolio companies, building their engineering, professional services, and support delivery teams in India. Based in Bangalore, STG Labs offers an entrepreneurial start-up environment for software and AI engineers, data scientists and analysts, and project and product managers and provides a unique opportunity to work directly for a software or technology company. STG Labs is setting up a state of the art product and engineering center of excellence for SurveyMonkey in Bangalore. Learn more at stg.com.

The Team:

Market research organization at SurveyMonkey caters to an exciting new space, ripe for innovation and helps millions of people make a wide variety of product and marketing decisions every day. We are an agile and autonomous group of engineering, product, design and sales teams moving the product forward quickly and efficiently. Market research engineering teams are accountable for the services and experiences that power a variety of products from self-serve to highly specialized market research use cases. Our services are written in Python and run on AWS. We are a learning organization and continuously modernize our technical stack and infrastructure.

The Role:

We are looking for someone who has a passion for solving new and interesting problems. We welcome new ideas and fresh perspectives that you bring with yourself which can help grow our team, and our platform both internally and with our customers. Your contributions will be extremely important to the success of the team through your technical work, experience and leadership. You will continuously build and expand your own technical expertise as well as drive excellence in engineering within the team.

Responsibilities:

Design, build and maintain scalable services across multiple data regions

Own a suite of services supporting market research solutions.

Write high-quality back-end code

Own features end to end, including crafting technical specs, writing readable and extensible code, and following software best practices which allow us to move quickly

Build observable systems that track important metrics that help monitoring as well as make important product decisions

Foster a culture of collaboration, testing, code reviews, and mentorship to help the team reach their full potential

Qualifications

3+ years experience in web application development mainly focused on the backend

Expertise in designing and building world-class services and APIs

Experience with Python and frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, Pyramid

Experience with ORM frameworks and SQL/NoSQL databases, experience with Elasticsearch a plus

Experience with messaging and streaming frameworks like Kafka, Apache Spark, etc.

Strong understanding and experience with one or more object-oriented programming languages and design patterns

Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with both co-located and remote engineers and cross-functional partners

A growth/data mindset in approaching challenges